1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

Doomsday is coming, congress MUST ACT NOW! If the Strait of Hormuz never reopens, we will have an actual apocalypse. The world had a cushion. Enormous reserves of oil sitting in storage, built up over years. We've been burning through that cushion to keep the gas flowing and the prices from exploding. But a cushion is not a faucet. It runs out. Then you ou lose the pressure that keeps fuel moving to every station, every truck, every farm, all at once. The experts say the worst-case estimates put it around this fall. The strait stays shut. The reserves hit empty. Diesel goes first, and diesel is what moves the world. The trucks that restock your grocery store. The trains. The cargo ships. The combines that bring in the harvest. The supply chains we depend on to get our food and medicines disappear. Food doesn't disappear because we stopped growing it. It disappears because nothing can afford to move it, and because fertilizer is made from natural gas, so the next harvest costs a fortune before it's even planted. Grocery stores are closed. People starve. Factories across Europe and Asia go dark. Oil itself blows past every record in human history, into numbers with no modern precedent, because the whole planet is fighting over a fraction of what it needs. And this isn't a fringe nightmare. The Atlantic Council says strategic reserves are "no match for massive, sustained production outages," and calls this disruption "without precedent." Worldwide economic collapse. The Great Depression on steroids. The scariest part isn't that this scenario exists. It's that the people who could stop it keep insisting everything is fine. The Treasury Secretary swears gas will be cheaper by the midterms. The reserves keep falling anyway. The cushion is almost gone, and the silence is the scariest part. CONGRESS MUST STOP THE WAR AND OPEN THE STRAITS NOW!